Don’t Sue The Other Party’s Lawyer Unfortunately, one of the most common ways for a lawyer to be sued is by an opposing party. As a lawyer, you owe a duty to your client. You do not owe a duty to the opposing party. (There are duties to the Court…
The Second District of the Illinois Appellate Court recently decided Nutter v. Schiller DuCanto & Fleck, 2022 IL App (2d) 210376, in which it held that a legal malpractice claim was barred by res judicata because the lawyer and the client had previously engaged in litigation over the lawyer’s fee petition.…